Management Team

Robin Purohit

President / CEO

Robin has held senior executive positions at VERITAS, Mercury, and most recently, at HP's three-billion-dollar portfolio of IT Management, Information Management, and Application Security products as VP/General Manager. Under Robin’s leadership, these companies have seen rapid growth in several new product categories, including clustering, IT automation, and storage networking. Robin has led more than 20 acquisitions and three successful exits of VERITAS to Symantec (2005), Mercury to HP (2007), and CANSTAR Communications to HP (1994).

Robin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering/Physics from the University of Waterloo.

Paul Mikesell

Co-Founder / Vice President of Engineering

Prior to starting Clustrix, Paul was the founder and director of engineering at Isilon Systems, the proven leader in scale-out NAS storage solutions. Paul designed, architected, and developed all of Isilon’s products while building the engineering team to 50 people, the company to 200 people, and revenue to $100M. After a successful IPO in 2006 Isilon was acquired by EMC in 2010 for $2.25B.

Before Isilon, Paul was the development manager for all of RealNetworks infrastructure products, including RealServer, RealProxy/Cache, and the distributed Live Real Streaming system.

Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Sergei Tsarev

Co-Founder / Chief Technology Officer

Sergei led the Internet Operations Systems Infrastructure team at AOL, designing large-scale monitoring and configuration management systems. Sergei's accomplishments include developing the Simple Time-series Database (STDB), a high performance data storage engine for operational monitoring metrics. STDB uses commodity hardware to linearly scale to hundreds of thousands of writes per second. It has become the standard storage engine for network and host monitoring data for all of AOL, replacing traditional high-end database infrastructure.

Sergei earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park.

Mark Sarbiewski

Chief Marketing Officer

Before joining Clustrix, Mark was Vice President of Product Marketing at HP Software. Mark was responsible for the design and implementation of all HP’s Product Marketing and Go-to-Market activities for the Applications area within the HP Software portfolio. Mark became part of HP Software through HP’s acquisition of Mercury in 2006.

Prior to joining Mercury and HP Software, Mark was Vice President of Marketing for InterTrust Technologies Corporation, where he led all key Marketing activities. Before InterTrust, Mark was a principal consultant for five years with Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath, the leading management consultant firm for technology companies. While there, he worked on more than a dozen major consulting engagements, ranging from strategy development to process reengineering. Before his stint as a consultant, Mark spent four years with IBM where he was an application software engineer.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of California, Davis and earned his MBA from University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.

Judi Feeley

Vice President of Sales

Judi has over 25 years of successful experience accelerating the revenue growth of technology organizations.

Before joining Clustrix, Judi was the VP of Sales at Blue Coat Systems, where she led the Strategic Accounts sales organization. Judi worked for companies such as SalesForce.com, VERITAS Software (later Symantec), NetFrame Systems, and HP. Her accomplishments include building a global accounts organization and growing product and support revenue by more than 50 percent in the UK and France at VERITAS Software, where she was a managing director.

Judi earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Boston College.

Mary Godwin

Vice President of Operations

Mary has over 25 years experience in managing, structuring and scaling Operations and Supply Chain teams and processes in both large scale and growth oriented companies. Prior to joining Clustrix, Mary was the Vice President, Operations at Isilon Systems where she was a member of the executive team responsible for returning Isilon to profitability and growth. Mary has also worked at companies such as Solectron and Lucent.

Mary holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Plastics Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and earned her MBA from Santa Clara University.

Scott Sullivan

Vice President, Technical Account Management

Scott has over twenty years experience in technology ranging from consumer to enterprise, software to appliance. Before Clustrix, Scott directed Software Quality Assurance and Engineering Operations at Isilon Systems through the early growth stages to revenue over $100M. Isilon successfully IPO’d in 2006 and was acquired by by EMC in 2010 for $2.25B. Earlier roles at Getty Images, Microsoft, and Nintendo kept Scott focused on building highly scalable processes and teams.
 
Scott studied Computer Science at the University of Washington.